On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Dave Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> I would like to be able to kick off an FTP of a
> > dataset to a Windows platform from MVS.
>
> I frequently transfer mainframe files to the PC and transfer PC files to the
> mainframe, and I always perform the transfer from the mainframe side. I don't
> use FTP; I use the ISPF Workstation Agent. It's free, easy to install, and
> makes files transfers a snap. For more information see
>
> http://www.tsotimes.com/articles/archive/spring04/wsafiletransfer.html
>
> Hope that helps,
> Dave SaltSee the new SimpList(tm) rollover image at:
> http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm
I second that. In my experience, WSA is just as fast as FTP, and is
much easier to set up. I have a batch job that executes a very simple
Rexx program that amounts to little more than an invocation of the
ISPF FILEXFER service:
ADDRESS ISPEXEC "filexfer host(hostfile) ws(wsfile) to(WS) BINARY"
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